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Women and Energy as Drivers of Development
African women represent over 50 percent of the African population but contribute to generating only 33 percent of the continent's collective GDP. This is because they are mostly employed in the informal sector, in low-income work with very few protections and prospects for professional growth. In Africa, approximately 600 million people currently lack access to electricity and over 70 percent of the ...
The Platform Economy and the Paradoxes of Digital Work
Many of the virtues digital platforms boast of - such as the substitution of human work, the formalization of informal economies, the definition of flexible and autonomous forms of use, or the democratization of the market and business – are not confirmed by empirical evidence; rather, we can see trends in the opposite direction. As much as the platform economy appears as a “disruptive innovation,” ...
Listening to the Silence: Reflections on the Great Resignation
What are the almost 4 million workers who have decided to leave their jobs in the United States since July 2021 fleeing from? From situations of unease, toxic work environments, absurd working hours, and conditions of burnout, i.e. emotional, physical, and mental exhaustion. It is as if the pandemic has shown that the jobs considered to be desirable were actually not as gratifying as they seemed or ...
The Reaction to the Shock, Defined by Change
During the first phase of the health emergency (March 9-May 4, 2000), the shutdown of economic activities caused a blockage of operations especially for smaller Italian businesses, that in our country represent a high percentage of employment and economic output of the Italian production system. Over 70 percent of businesses (73.7 percent in terms of employment) reported a reduction of turnover compared ...
Is Working Less and Earning More a Utopia?
The world of work, not only in Italy, is going through evident transformations and changes – the development of remote work, the wave of layoffs that has affected different professions, the lack of labor in some sectors – and some pressing demands, such as the introduction of a guaranteed minimum wage and a reduction of work hours with the same salary. Based on some experiments, that reduction ...